Education Week

You probably already have a dictionary of educational jargon on your shelves but probably not one quite as recent as this thin handy volume. While I found this dictionary missing a number of terms I was interested in (information literacy), I have found and enjoyed reading the author’s perspective of what various terms mean in her survey of the literature. For example, librarians talk about collaboration and define that in many ways. I have adopted the term co-teaching to signify the highest level of collaboration between classroom teacher and teacher librarian. According to Phelps Deily, that term comes from special education and means the joint teaching by two adults for a learning activity or unit of instruction. So, I recommend this inexpensive dictionary and I keep it close by not because it is complete but because of its currency. The coverage of terms, legislation, and trendy ideas helps us as teacher librarian speak the language of education.… (más)